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CONTRACT SUMMARY 9 ⢠Creation of a user-friendly software system to facilitate the estimation of exposure. Project 2: Covariates, Confounders, and Consistency: Characterizing the Vietnam Veteran for Epidemiologic Studies ⢠Examination of self-reports of military service, exposure to herbicides, and confounders and covariates of methodologic interest (such as combat experience). ⢠Evaluation of validity of veteran recall and various approaches to obtaining self-reported data. Project 3: Evaluation and Standardization of Military Records for Use in Epidemiologic Studies9 ⢠Identification of the Vietnam-era military personnel and other records that contain information potential relevant to epidemiologic studies. ⢠Development and testing of a standardized means to abstract records data needed to determine a veteran's dates of service in-country, military unit(s), occupation(s), and other service-related information potentially relevant to epidemiologic studies. ⢠Evaluation of the consistency of the records data with self-reports of military service and experience. ⢠Development of a guide to obtaining and abstracting military records for use in epidemiologic research. Project 4: Biomarkers ofTCDD (Dioxin) Exposure in Vietnam Veterans 9 This project was entitled Evaluation and Standardization of Military Personnel Records for Epidemiologic Studies in the contractor's proposal. It is revised here to clarify that both personnel and other records were examined.
